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She might do greatly worse, and is incapable of doing greatly better. Will you stint the idiots of comfort, or rather build them decent habitations, and even vex yourself to feed and clothe them, in reverent confidence that the Future shall surely take them up and bless them, unstop their ears, open their eyes, give speech to them and absolute deliverance?
'Does that mean living as the Faithfulls do? 'Yes, I think your means will be nearly the same as theirs. 'Fitzjocelyn, said Isabel, after a long pause, 'I see what you have been implying all this time, and I have been feeling it too. I have been absorbed in my own pursuits, and not paid attention enough to details of management, and so I have helped to fret and vex my husband.
No, neither at Marseilles; but elsewhere, anything you please and with all my heart." "Very good, my dear, just as you please. But look at your room; no more garret for you; and in three days we will start." "So soon?" "Yes; tell me to-morrow what you require for the journey, for I don't want you to lack for anything, and if you leave it all to me I might forget something which would vex me."
Above all things, the forecited authors have given particular directions to physicians about the words, discourse, and converse which they ought to have with their patients; everyone aiming at one point, that is, to rejoice them without offending God, and in no wise whatsoever to vex or displease them.
Up and, with my wife to church, and coming out, went out both before my Lady Batten, he not being there, which I believe will vex her. After dinner my wife to church again, and I to the French church, where I heard an old man make a tedious, long sermon, till they were fain to light candles to baptize the children by.
He was present at the battle of Sedan, and was the first Englishman to enter the town afterwards. I. In a Devonshire Village The twilight of a winter's evening was fast falling into night, and old John Thornton sat dozing by the fire. His face looked worn and aged, and anyone might see the old man was unhappy. What could there be to vex him?
On the other hand, the fascination that Mrs. Marteen exercised over him was far from being placid enjoyment. She continued to vex his heart and irritate his imagination.
Puddock gave him leave, and he read the letter. 'From my aunt, he said, throwing it down with a discontented air; and then he read it once more, thought for a while, and put it into his pocket. 'The countess says I must go, Puddock. She has got my leave from the general; and hang it there's no help for it I can't vex her, you know. Indeed, Puddock, I would not vex her.
"Won't you stay with me a little while, quietly?" said Margaret; "we hardly ever have one of our talks." "I didn't mean to vex you, dear Margaret; I like nothing so well, only we are never alone, and I've no time." "Pray do spare me a minute, Ethel, for I have something that I must say to you, and I am afraid you won't like it so do listen kindly."
It is the fault of the present unhappy King, if he make us look back with regret to the days when the nation was respected abroad, and when devotion and sobriety were practised at home. But I mean not to vex your spirit by controversy.
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